· Private foundation
Schwarz Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $169k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Neurosurgical Atlas Inc | $2,000,000 |
| Ohio Fdn of Independent Colleges | $259,287 |
| St Mary's Child Center Inc | $32,500 |
| Dream Center Indianapolis Inc | $30,000 |
| Chlidren First Inc | $30,000 |
| Brightlane Learning Corp | $25,000 |
| Indianapolis Public Schools Education Foundation Inc | $15,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Noblesville | $15,000 |
| Watch Us Farm | $11,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Boone County Inc | $10,000 |
| Zionsville Educational Fund | $7,500 |
| Hamilton Southeastern Schools Foundation Inc | $7,500 |
| Firefly Children & Family Alliance | $7,000 |
| Hector P Garcia Elementary School | $7,000 |
| AAI Scholarship Fund Inc | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TOTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +19%
- BLBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP6× · 2019–2024 · $211k · revenue +127%
- HSHAMILTON SOUTHEASTERN SCHOOLS8× · 2017–2024 · $203k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- NINoble Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $33k · revenue +43%
- TFTECHPOINT FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +22%
- CHCHRISTEL HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue +58%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
KIPP Indy is a network of tuition-free, open-enrollment, college preparatory, public charter schools. KIPP Indy's mission is to create a network of schools that provides educationally underserved children with a rigorous education that…
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
Early learning indiana (eli) is on a mission to ensure every child is empowered with essential skills to thrive in kindergarten and beyond. (see schedule o for continuation)
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The mind trust strives to provide every student in indianapolis and beyond with access to an excellent education.
The mission of the international school of indiana is to provide our students with a world-class education that prepares them to be responsible citizens and effective leaders in a rapidly globalizing and interdependent world.
Indiana family to family (inf2f) is a unique statewide family-led organization that provides information, training, and peer support to caregivers of children and youth with special health care needs (cyshcn) and the professionals who…
Founded in 1883, brightpoint (formerly known as children's home & aid) is a leading statewide organization supporting families so children can thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Advocates Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hussey Mayfield Memorial Public Library Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds The Neurosurgical Atlas Inc ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON SOUTHEASTERN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Children First Inc ↗
- Who funds DREAM CENTER OF INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF BOONE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Zionsville Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTED MENTORS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Noble Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIANA WISH INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NOBLESVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds HEAR INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE JULIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TECHPOINT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WATCH US FARM INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTEL HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds Dayspring Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds HUSSEY MAYFIELD MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Pacers Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Samerian Foundation Inc · Healthcare Initiatives Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Schwarz Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Children First Inc — 100% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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